Since then, development has continued at an intense pace. As this extraction from the Wary 5.2 Announcement page states:

This is a massive upgrade relative to the 5.1.x series. All of the base packages were recompiled in T2. Certain choices were made in T2 with the plan of seamless upgrading from Xorg 7.3 to 7.6 -- that is, the default Wary system has Xorg 7.3, but it is planned that Wary can be upgraded to Xorg 7.6 by installation of a single PET package, and all applications will work before and after. This required some very careful configuration. The idea is to "have our cake and eat it too" -- Xorg 7.3 for old hardware, easy upgrade to 7.6 for newer video hardware. The plan actually seems to be working.
As usual, huge changes yet only a small version-number change. Many bug fixes, upgrades, new packages.

The live-CD ISO file is 123.6MB, which might seen pretty small, yet it could have been much smaller -- the build has the "kitchen sink" in terms of kernel drivers, for example very large 3rd-party analog modem drivers. Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.2/wary-5.2.iso

1. The Puppy Package Manager can install PET packages from the 'wary5' repository. However, we need to test all of the packages in that repo, that they still work. One issue is that 'ffmpeg' got updated in latest Wary, which might have broken a couple of the media player PETs (Gnome-mplayer, Smplayer). This testing will be done ASAP.

2. The pup has the 2.6.32.45 kernel, configured with SMP (multiple CPU cores) support enabled. I did also compile a uniprocessor kernel, however in alpha/beta testing no-one reported a failure with the SMP-enabled kernel on a uniprocessor system that was fixed by using the uniprocessor-enabled kernel. Hence, I have not built a uniprocessor version of Wary 5.2.

3. I am still not 100% certain that an old save-file will upgrade correctly. If you have a save-file from an earlier version of Wary, booting up with 5.2 should upgrade it ok -- if X fails, try rebooting -- if X still fails, try with boot parameter "puppy pfix=purge".

Posted on 14 Oct 2011, 14:21 by TerryphiOld savefile breaks WaryAs previously reported using savefile from Wary 5.1.4.1 breaks Wary 5.2 even when using pfix=purge.
Black screen but with bar at bottom from which I can run some added programs but not rox or Puppy programs.

- which version of EudoraOSE.pet is most likely to work? I have two at present.

Posted on 14 Oct 2011, 17:06 by Sage5.2Woofwoof missing!

Posted on 14 Oct 2011, 17:17 by tronkelWhat does future hold nowLooks as though this latest version of Wary has just obsoleted every previous version - because of the the quantum-leap improvements under the hood.

Should this Wary 5.2 version not now be considered to be the official Puppy for the end users as well as a working base for the Puppy derivative developers? Does the Woof tree allow say a Slackware or Ubuntu variant to be built using this Wary 5.2 as its base?

Congratulations on this milestone version Barry - what an humongous achievement! I wonder what will happen to the Distrowatch rating now.

Posted on 14 Oct 2011, 18:16 by SageWoofwoof...as you were. The old problem with old kit - sound not working by default. Anything older than about 3-4yrs may need ALSA to be run. Chicken and egg for testing, though. Need a default Woofwoof before fiddling with settings!

Posted on 15 Oct 2011, 3:01 by Iguleder1Wildcards in WoofBarry - I just found some bug in Woof. When you use a wildcard in the second field (e.g the package names), Woof only applies this selection to one package list.

I'm trying to build a dpup with the Debian Backports mirror and I got a broken X because of this - Woof only picked the packages from the backports repository but kept the ones from the Squeeze repository out.

I shall create a wary52 packaged eudora in a couple of days (mon-tue), check www.lamiaworks.com.au/puppy.html although I suspect the w5 pet should work out of the hat.

@barry and interested others.

I built a (rough) 106 with xorg 7.6 as well as the same with xorg 7.4 using woof, just to do a comparison. I found that the 7.6 clearly seems to run faster, it also runs on my old hardware, even those that I had problems with with 7.4 earlier! I wonder why?

regards
scsijon

Posted on 15 Oct 2011, 12:57 by scsijonxorg7.6sorry, I mean using xorg 7.6 works, but using xorg 7.4 fails.

Posted on 15 Oct 2011, 18:00 by Iguleder1Re: wildcardsBarry - no, this isn't the problem. These are "compatible distro" packages anyway. The problem is that some of them originate in one repo and the others in another. When I use a wildcard, Woof picks only the packages from the first repo.

I can't put that field, since it will force one repository and the other packages will be missing.

on the other hand I thought i'd try the existing wary5 version before repackaging and it works properly providing you install it's two (dbus, dbus-glib) dependancies before installing it.

please remember you need to reboot after installing dbus and give Eudora a little time to set itself up when started the first time, it has to setup a few files, links and the like for the user.

Posted on 16 Oct 2011, 14:48 by Sagelink & EudoraThanks for those clarifications, guys.
Of course, I did type in the link! Can I ask a supplementary, please? Do we need those two dbus files if we d/l the Eudora file on scsijon's link? Or are those just for folks using the Wary5 version (presumably still in the repo?)?
http://www.lamiaworks.com.au/puppy.html

Posted on 16 Oct 2011, 23:20 by TerryphiFix for old warysave fileForum member upnorth has posted a fix for the problem where a savefile from an earlier version of Wary breaks Wary 5.2.

Posted on 17 Oct 2011, 5:15 by witek_w11I found a bug.Geeqie starts ok, but when we klik on folder with images then application collaps. In console types: segmentation fault.

Posted on 17 Oct 2011, 10:28 by scsijon@sage + eudorayou need to check if your version has these two packages in by default or add them from their own, wary doesn't which is why I put them there, hidden directory file /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages is your friend here.

pm me (same name) on murga-linux.com if further help required, were getting off-topic here

Posted on 18 Oct 2011, 13:07 by cbsRequestInstalled frugal on my old Sony laptop.
Works wonderfully well.
However, i would like to request if it is possible to update Viewnior to v.1.0 or 1.1
I would like to use the crop function found only in later versions.
Thank you for your hard work.

Posted on 12 Nov 2011, 15:49 by pupokcpup 3 800mhz 128 ram and p 4 1400mhz 512 ram do not work well with the latest kernel, very heavy CPU

Posted on 12 Nov 2011, 16:19 by BarryKRe heavy CPUpupok,
You might have better luck with the upcoming Wary 5.2.2, which has a uniprocessor kernel. A couple of testers have reported that this has less CPU usage.